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Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery

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Business continuity is the capability to continue business operations in the event of a serious incident or disaster.
Disaster recovery is the capability to restore critical infrastructure and systems in the event of an incident or disaster.

Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery

Business continuity involves restoring critical business processes and capabilities after a major disruption such as a disaster. This typically includes getting employees connected, organized and restoring the tools they need to do their jobs.
Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity that is specific to infrastructure and information systems. In many cases, most of the planning and expense of business continuity is systems related as organizations may have hundreds of interdependent systems that are required to restore business operations. As such, disaster recovery is not a minor subset of business continuity and tends to dominate.
Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
Definition
Restoring business operations in the event of a serious incident or disaster.
Restoring IT infrastructure and systems in the event of a serious incident or disaster.

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This is the complete list of articles we have written about business continuity.
Business As Usual
Business Impact
Call Tree
Cold Site
Contingency Plan
Data Backup
Disaster Recovery
Impact Analysis
Impact Statement
Resilience
Risk Management
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